At the Glabar Park Community Alliance Annual General Meeting on October 5th, Councillor Kavanagh announced that Glabar Park – and some adjacent neighbourhoods – would be designated as Gateway Communities. Speed limits within these communities were to be reduced sometime this fall. Signs indicating a 40 km/hr limit were installed earlier this month at every entry point into Glabar Park from Maitland, Woodroffe and Carling.  This is one more traffic calming measure being taken by the City of Ottawa to address the many complaints about speeding traffic made by residents.

City shares data from Lenester speed board

On a similar note, the Alliance recently requested data from the speed board located on Lenester, just west of Aaron.  For the year to October 19, 2021, there were over 278,000 vehicles observed.  Bearing in mind that this is only for one direction, Lenester probably had traffic of about 1,500 vehicles per day. 96% of those trips were below the old speed limit of 50 km/hr, and 56% were already travelling under the new speed limit of 40 km/hr.  The vast majority of the remaining vehicles were travelling in the 50-60 km/hr range.